Health (10 posts found)

Shocking but Brilliant Shower Thoughts Only Women Have
A shower is the perfect place for brilliant and penetrating thoughts. Here are some of the most enigmatic thoughts only women have:
1. Toasts
2. Squirrels
3. Rubber bands
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What Women Really Think About Men
Since 1992 it's official: "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus" or at least that's what Dr. John Gray famously voiced in his Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex. Acknowledging the fact that women and men have different assumptions of the oth...

Marriage by the Numbers - The Facts and Figures You Thought You Knew
1. The average wedding costs $28,202: an engagement ring is around $5,002, a wedding dress on average costs $1,380, the average bridesmaids' dress costs $134 and the wedding cake is around $461. Prior to getting married, 8...

You Will Never Believe These Bizarre Truths About Men
1. Part of daily routine for most men is pogonotomy (otherwise known as beard cutting or shaving); cultivating facial hair is called pogonotrophy. During his lifetime the average man will spend 3340 hours shaving off 8,4 m of whiskers, o...

21 Mind-blowing Facts You Didn’t Know About Women
1. Women speak an average of 20,000 words daily compared to only 7,000 words for men, according to research at the University of California. This means that on average, women talk nearly three times as much as men.
3. An ave...

How I Discovered Self-Love - The Key to Happiness
I haven't discovered self-love up until very recently. It's something that didn't come naturally to me despite my rather passionate disposition. I didn't realize how little I knew about self-appreciation until I looked it up, and found out t...

Fulfilling Destiny and a Free Ride When You've Already Paid
Life has its funny ways (and not only in the Alanis Morissette song).
When I was innocently young I had big plans. I wanted to be a doctor and study medicine. Although I was fainting at the bare sight of a blood drop comin...

Drop the Soap! - The Truth About Sex After 40
It doesn’t matter if you’ve been married for ten, fifteen or 20 years, divorced and have a new partner, or maybe just fooling around after your husband left you for a nineteen year old. There are some universal truths that apply to everybody w...

The Angelina Jolie Effect – Don’t Remove Your Fallopian Tubes Just Yet
With celebrities being celebrities, and well, Angelina Jolie being Angelina Jolie, I’m not exactly ecstatic about the actress going public about her elective surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes.
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I Killed My Ovaries - Bloody Hell, Now What?
Two years ago, at the age of 38 I was diagnosed with POF. And by that I don’t mean the POF, (Plenty Of Fish) - leading online dating service, but more likely the Premature Ovarian Failure (called interchangeably premature menopause), which hit me...

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Hi, my name is Abby. I'm a writer, globetrotter and expat-blogger. When I'm not busy surviving my midlife crisis without going nuts, you can find me sipping cheap Champagne and nibbling on macarons from Ladurée in the French countryside.